Word: salamis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ivan-Kavalerov and the living symbols of the new order, Andrei Babichev and his protege Volodia. Babichev is Ivan's brother, a revolutionary who has been rewarded with the directorship of the Food Industry Trust. He is a glutton whose finest efforts go into the creation of a salami so good, so cheap, so nutritious that it will win at an international exposition. His idea ot a conversational gambit is: "Do you like olives?" Human Machine. But Babichev is not all bad. He has taken Kavalerov into his house out of pity for a helpless tippler, and tells himself...
Khrushchev (contemptuously): We do not sell ideas. Ideas are not salami...
Conspicuous Consumption. In Atlanta, informed that his baggage was half a pound over the weight limit, a Delta Airlines passenger pulled out a 2-ft. roll of salami, sliced off half a pound before his plane left...